Te Kura Tuarua o Horomaka Hillmorton High School
Secondary (Year 7-15) · State · Barrington, Christchurch
1,415 students on the roll in Barrington · EQI 467 · an enrolment scheme in place.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 4. Current Equity Index: 467. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- Tankerville Road, Barrington, Christchurch, 8244
- Roll: 1,415 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1961
- An enrolment scheme is in place.
- Isolation index 0.21, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Phone: 03-3385119
- Email: admin@hillmorton.school.nz
- Contact: Sam Ainsworth
- Website: hillmorton.school.nz
Who the roll is
Students may identify with more than one group, the counts are the Ministry’s own and need not sum to the roll.
Enrolment zone
- Hillmorton High School (Year 9-13), in force from 2025-10-06 · 40 km²
- Hillmorton High School (Year 7-8), in force from 2025-10-06 · 15 km²
It covers: Addington, Aidanfield, Hillmorton, Hoon Hay, Spreydon, and the fringes of Christchurch Central, Halswell, Somerfield, Sydenham, Westmorland.
Indicative only, the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary. Confirm with the school before relying on it.
Other schools near here
Te Kura o Mōkihi Spreydon School, decile 3 · EQI 453 · 415 m- Southern Health School, decile 1 · EQI 569 · 431 m
- Te Kōmanawa Rowley School, decile 1 · EQI 535 · 649 m
- Hoon Hay Te Kura Kōaka, decile 8 · EQI 416 · 1.4 km
Our Lady of the Assumption School (Chch), decile 10 · EQI 401 · 1.4 km- Te Ara Koropiko West Spreydon School, decile 4 · EQI 445 · 1.5 km
- New Zealand IT College (Proposed), private, not rated · 1.7 km
Aidanfield Christian School, decile 8 · EQI 377 · 1.9 km
The green nearby
Parks whose drawn outline sits within 400 m, measured to the outline itself, so a school on a big reserve’s edge still counts.
- Hoon Hay Park, Sports ground · 380 m to its edge
The bus stop
The nearest stop the Metro map carries, measured to the school’s pin, not its gate.
- Halswell Rd near Tankerville Rd, 251 m · route 7
Under the ground
The plans and surveys the site keeps, asked once of the school’s ground, footprints and plan maps, not engineering findings.
- The February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over this point, mapped ground failure, a footprint, not a finding
- The liquefaction model grades it “Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability”, the 2019 screening study
Ministry of Education school directory via data.govt.nz · zones via the Ministry’s enrolment-zone map · refreshed 3 October 2026.
What stood on this ground before → · On the map →
Questions, answered briefly
Secondary (Year 7-15) · State · Co-Educational, in Barrington.
1,415 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 467, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 4.
2 zone polygons on record, it covers Addington, Aidanfield, Hillmorton and 2 more suburbs (+ fringes). The boundary drawn here is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal answer.